The Planets by Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
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Category: REM Science | Reading Level: 4 Science
Jupiter: The Ruthless One - Mars: The Doomed One - Sun: The Fiery One - Saturn: The Beautiful One - Pluto: The Mysterious One Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our solar system as we've never seen it before. We're living thro ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
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Category: REM Science | Reading Level: very good
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts
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In this compulsively readable book, Dr. Alice Roberts lays out the miraculously strange way in which the human body grows from a chemical (DNA) into a living, sentient being. A longtime professor and well-known TV presenter, Dr. Roberts is also an author of unusual ability, capable of synthesizing compl ...Show more
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
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From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over ...Show more
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
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Category: REM Science
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, "New York Times" columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the sto ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli; Simon Carnell (Translator); Erica Segre (Translator)
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Category: REM Science
"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are the elementary ingr ...Show more
In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis by Casey Schwartz
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Category: REM Science
" Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain. " I d never been a science person, Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching quest to unders ...Show more
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
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From the bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walkand Subliminal, this is the inspiring and illuminating story of how we have come to understand the world, from the invention of the very first tools to the mind-bending theories of quantum physics. Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras an ...Show more
The Zoomable Universe: A Step-by-Step Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from the Infinite to the Infinitesimal by Caleb Scharf
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Embark on a breath-taking, cutting-edge voyage through the enormity of our reality - travelling one 'power of ten' or order of magnitude at a time.Inspired by the classic 'Powers of Ten' film and bestselling book by Charles and Ray Eames, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and acclaimed artis ...Show more
The Equations of Life - The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell
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Category: REM Science
One of Britain's foremost astrobiologists offers an accessible and game-changing account of life on Earth. Why do gazelles have legs and not wheels? Why is all life based on carbon rather than silicon? And beyond Earth, would life - if it exists - look like our own? The puzzles of life astound and conf ...Show more
Primate Change by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
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Category: REM Science
'An excellent evaluation of our bodily shortcomings' - Financial Times This is the road from climate change to primate change. Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE. * 'Our bodies are in a shock. Modern living is as bracing to the human body as jumping through ...Show more
Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
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Category: REM Science | Reading Level: very good
"Proust and the Squid" was in "Publishers Weekly's"'Best Books of 2007' - described as 'a pathbreaking look at the reading brain'.How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind.'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dicta ...Show more